Pretty interesting #video from #katiehopkins on the 15-minute cities: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JFEuD1dTCYw Turns out that #oxford #council failed to release important #data that detroys their case, unless, the point is not to reduce #traffic . It is very simple, they just want less people driving and they don't care what negative outcomes this means for you.
The #oxford #union #vegan #argument is wild: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gMfjm4NWkYU Apparently it is #racist , #sexist , #colonialist , #oppression , #sexual #violence to #eat #meat ... Apparently #drinking #milk makes you a #neonazi ... What the actual fuck. Insanity.
I #listened to the #oxford #union " #debate " on #meritocracy and the #conclusion I came to is that few of them knew what they were talking about: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AeRHkFw9fYw Firstly, only few of them even knew the #definition - secondly, half of them #debated a different #proposition - thirdly, #sharonchau et al attacked their #opponents #character - the list goes on. Essentially it is a debate of #communism vs #capitalism at its root - not that any of them understood this.
So a key person in the #oxford / #astrazeneca #vaccine development for #covid has no said that the #delta #india #variant makes #herdimmunity impossible: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/delta.. Why are we even bothering then? #israel has 80% #vaccination in #adults and recently got another surge in cases. *There is no way out, we just need to accept the reality.*
The #oxford #student #union was once a bastion of #freespeech - now it is setting up a 'Student Consultancy of Sensitivity Readers': https://www.lotuseaters.com/oxford-stude.. Apparently they will be removing #racist and #sexist articles, something the student union is supposedly well known for... Or it could be about controlling the narrative - but we'll see.
Apparently #bezos will invest into a #nuclearfusion project in #oxford #uk https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir.. I didn't realize they were now at the stage of creating net-positive energy? They optimistically believe it will cost just $400 million and will be completed by 2025 - somehow I doubt both of those targets will be met.
#oxford #professor 's, a #privileged group, are protesting the #rhodes #statue - on the basis of privilege? https://www.lotuseaters.com/150-academic.. The only reason Oxford didn't bend to their will was because of 'cost', and not to historic value. What a dumb social moment in history we have found ourselves in.